Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.”

“Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.”

“Beauty without expression is boring.”

“Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.”

“We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.”

“As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.”

“A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.”

“The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.”

“A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.”

“No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.”

“The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.”

“When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.”

“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”

“Power and speed be hands and feet.”

“All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.”

“Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.”

“Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.”

“As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.”

“Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.”

“Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.”

“The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.”

“Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.”

“Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.”

“A great man is always willing to be little.”